Essential Scottish Tech Startup Resources

Being a startup founder isn’t easy and you need all the help you can get thankfully for Scottish tech startups there are lots of excellent resources. As with anything there are a lot of dubs out there but some of these resources every founder in Scotland should be aware of. Here are, in my opinion, 10 essential tech startup resources:

1. StartupDigest Scotland - this weekly email is something I curate. Comes out every Monday morning and highlights the best events in the week ahead and provides a recap on the weekly happenings in the Scottish startup scene. Free to sign up to and unobtrusive.
2. TechMeetup Mailing List – Jobs, discussions, announcements and a bit of banter all happen on this great mailing list. Currently sitting at 656 members the list is a great place to find out what is going on in Scotland.
3. Edinburgh Lean Circle Mailing List – another brilliant Google Group. These guys arrange some fantastic events so well worth signing up for these alone.
4. StartupCafe RSS - Although a bit quiet of late Startup Cafe still produces great content for startups and has a great archive of posts.
5. Start It Lean Mailing List – Blog by non-technical founder Scott Torrance. Focusing on his journey developing his idea using lean methodologies and lean thinking.
6. Informatics Ventures Mailing List – Keep up to date with the work of Informatics Ventures. Some awesome events take place in Scotland thanks to these guys, the likes of the Bill Joos pitching workshop and Engage Invest Exploit each year.
7. Entrepreneurial Spark LinkedIn Group - One of the most active LinkedIn groups I’m a member of. Lots of great content and discussion going on.
8. Edinburgh2 – simple yet effective site. You can quickly see what regular meetups and user group meetings are meeting each month in Edinburgh.
9. Glasgow2 - There is now also Glasgow2 which serves the same purpose as Edinburgh2 but for, you guessed it, Glasgow.
   1. Dundee Web Standards - a monthly social gathering of like-minded individuals in the creative industries based in and around Dundee. Be sure to keep an eye on the blog and the twitter account.

Here are some other important resource you can sign up to, although I’m maybe a bit biased:

• RookieOven RSS
• RookieOven on Facebook
• RookieOven on Twitter
• RookieOven on Google+

These are the resources I think Scottish tech startup founders can’t afford to not to be aware of. Can you suggest some more?